Virginia House Bill 2025 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)
Status: Vetoed on March 23 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-04-05 - House sustained Governor's veto
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

Religious freedom; solemnization of marriage. Provides that no person shall be (i) required to participate in the solemnization of any marriage or (ii) subject to any penalty by the Commonwealth, or its political subdivisions or representatives or agents, solely on account of such person's belief, speech, or action in accordance with a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction that marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman. The bill defines "person" as any (a) religious organization; (b) organization supervised by or controlled by or operated in connection with a religious organization; (c) individual employed by a religious organization while acting in the scope of his paid or volunteer employment; (d) successor, representative, agent, agency, or instrumentality of any of the foregoing; or (e) clergy member or minister. The bill also defines "penalty." This bill is identical to SB 1324.

Religious freedom; solemnization of marriage.

Del. Nicholas Freitas [R]	Del. Richard Bell [R]	Del. Mark Cole [R]	Del. James Edmunds [R]
Del. Matt Fariss [R]	Del. Dave LaRock [R]	Del. Robert Marshall [R]	Del. Margaret Ransone [R]
Del. Tony Wilt [R]	Del. Thomas Wright [R]

2017-02-20 - House - House: VOTE: ADOPTION (54-Y 38-N) (Y: 54 N: 38 NV: 8 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-16 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (21-Y 19-N) (Y: 21 N: 19 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-16 - Senate - Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-16 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (20-Y 19-N) (Y: 20 N: 19 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2017-02-15 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-13 - Senate - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments (8-Y 7-N) (Y: 8 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-02 - House - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (57-Y 37-N) (Y: 57 N: 37 NV: 5 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-26 - House - House: Reported from General Laws (14-Y 8-N) (Y: 14 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-19 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 2-N) (Y: 4 N: 2 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-19 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 2-N) (Y: 4 N: 2 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-04-05	House	House sustained Governor's veto
2017-04-05	House	Placed on Calendar
2017-03-23		Governor: Vetoed by Governor
2017-02-28		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
2017-02-28	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
2017-02-24	Senate	Signed by President
2017-02-23	House	Signed by Speaker
2017-02-23	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2025ER)
2017-02-23	House	Enrolled
2017-02-20	House	VOTE: ADOPTION (54-Y 38-N)
2017-02-20	House	Senate amendments agreed to by House (54-Y 38-N)
2017-02-20	House	Placed on Calendar
2017-02-16	Senate	Passed Senate with amendments (21-Y 19-N)
2017-02-16	Senate	Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2017-02-16	Senate	Passed Senate with amendments (20-Y 19-N)
2017-02-16	Senate	Engrossed by Senate as amended
2017-02-16	Senate	Committee amendments agreed to
2017-02-16	Senate	Reading of amendments waived
2017-02-16	Senate	Read third time
2017-02-15	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2017-02-13	Senate	Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments (8-Y 7-N)
2017-02-03	Senate	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2017-02-03	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2017-02-02	House	VOTE: PASSAGE (57-Y 37-N)
2017-02-02	House	Read third time and passed House (57-Y 37-N)
2017-02-01	House	Printed as engrossed 17102190D-E
2017-02-01	House	Engrossed by House as amended HB2025E
2017-02-01	House	Amendment by Delegate Freitas agreed to
2017-02-01	House	Read second time
2017-01-31	House	Passed by for the day
2017-01-30	House	Read first time
2017-01-26	House	Reported from General Laws (14-Y 8-N)
2017-01-19	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 2-N)
2017-01-16	House	Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4
2017-01-10	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2017-01-10	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102190D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2025
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2025+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2025E+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2025ER+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H1104V0012+HB2025
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H1104V0029+HB2025
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H11V0073+HB2025
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+HV1846+HB2025
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S12V0140+HB2025
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0554HB2025+HB2025
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0620HB2025+HB2025
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0621HB2025+HB2025
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0622HB2025+HB2025
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+HV2496+HB2025